Steve Martin Quotes
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I love trying to forge a contract between creator and audience in which we are able to meet halfway, each injecting a part of our own experiences into a story that's being told.
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The product of extraordinary wealth allied to a taste for the sumptuous.
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I find it hard to act other than the way I feel.
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I take great pride in having been able to overcome the Asian financial crisis and seeking the opportunities available to bring about an unprecedented growth in the economy.
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If I am elected president, keep an eye on the tarmac, because I'll be back, because Iowa in 2017 will not be fly-over country. It will be fly-to country.
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My great-grandfather came here as a refugee from the pogrom in Ukraine.
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I think any actor should be aware of where they're starting to stretch into what's not truthful.
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I'm a big Otis Redding fan, Al Green, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye. My hero is David Bowie. But I like the Beatles, the Stones.
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Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.
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I basically have a very positive philosophy of life, because I don't feel I have anything to lose. Most things are going to turn out okay.
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Economics should be defined in terms of what it is about. It should be about how people produce things, how people exchange them, how people earn income, how they pay taxes, how the government provides infrastructure with tax revenue, and how it conducts monetary policy. The subject has to be defined in terms of the object of inquiry.
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At my age it is unseemly to be pessimistic.
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My book 'The Exciting Adventures of Boo' was first published when I was fifteen. It is a children's book with ten different stories. In each story, the main character Boo learns a lesson - one of the ten most important lessons I learned as a kid. I also donated all the money from my books I personally sold to my local ASPCA Animal Shelter.
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People who meet me as an adult are often surprised that I'm alive and have never been in prison or rehab. Sometimes they're disappointed I'm not cooler.
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Push yourself again and again. Don't give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.
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Humans tend to start the process of change by acknowledging themselves-thus blacks asserted black pride and black is beautiful; women declared I am woman, I am strong ; men are saying I am man, I am okay. After a quarter of a century of male bashing, that’s not a bad start.
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We do not have that much to moan about when one thinks of what people did not moan about before.
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John Howard's credibility on the entire Iraq war has been torpedoed by John Howard's own intelligence agency.
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Well, who better to play Nazis than we Jews?
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What should the sleeping arrangements be in a ménage-à-trois? Is it polite to read while two people have sex beside you?
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religion notoriously claims that they invented morality, they didn't. Morality exists in animals, ya know.
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At the end of the day, though, there are a huge number of considerations that our management team go through before accepting any project - checking out the license is just one of them.
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You know that look that women get when they want to have sex? Me neither.
